Simon's SEO Blog

When using the new auto plugin installer in WordPress it failed miserably with the following error message: Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/addthis.1.6.6.zip… Warning: touch() [function.touch]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 587 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /long-path/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 199 Download failed. Could not [...]

Finally after a couple of hours of work all four of my blogs have been upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and if feels good! Here’s what you need to watch out for when upgrading: Automatic Upgrade Glitches The automatic upgrade feature of WordPress does not work if your web host is running PHP in safe mode, [...]

My experience installing Wordpress 3.0 on two of my older blogs, not without challenges with the plugins.

Michael Campbell, publisher of the Internet Marketing Secrets Newsletter and creator of the GooBert 2.0 social media marketing method, has released a controversial website on how to get nearly instant search engine rankings using social media sites and bookmarks. He calls it Jiggling the Web Regardless if you’re a SEO expert, an anti spam crusader [...]

I just started using Ping-O-Matic, a service for broadcasting your ping to multiple other ping services at the push of a button. The problem is there’s something wrong with Pingomatic.com and Firefox (and IE in some instances). I can successfully submit the first feed, but when submitting the next feed the form breaks and I [...]

Ok, you probably already noticed… and in case you didn’t here’s what I did: I replaced the old plain text homepage to a modern, premium theme, wordpress blog. Now the possibilites are endless, I can write anything I want without having to spit HTML and think formatting. And the benefit to you is that I’m [...]

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